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MEXICO MISSOURI MESSAGE, MEXICO. MISSOURI.
HUM GREW TO
BE
United States Did Not Seek Its
Broad Influence.
CHOSE TO BE KINDLY GIANT
Wanted Only Peace and to Be Per
mitted Fair Market Hohencol
lerns Greed haa Provod
Their Undoing.
(From tho Committee on Public Informa
tion, Washington, D. C.)
By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER.
Every person of middle age, and
those who have studied the matter
even slightly of whatever age, cannot
but be aware with whut extreme re
luctance the United States took Its
place as a "world power." Our whole
Instinct hus been against becoming
anything of the sort We had no de
sire to meddle In the affairs of the
world across tho Atlantic. We had
been urged by the founders of our Da
tlon to avoid foreign alliances "en
tangling" ones were specified, but all
foreign alliances ore "entangling," or
they are not alliances and the advice
lingered in our minds. Added to this
was tho fact that we were sufficient
unto ourselves. We had abundant
land, abundant food, and were able
to consume more manufactured ar
ticles than we could produce.. From
the first the Intent of the United
States was to live quietly at home,
attending to our own affairs, and pur
suing happiness In our own way with
out bothering our neighbors. I might
nay that the United States, from the
beginning; resolved to settle down to
a quiet family life.
I am not an old mnn, but I can re
member when It was first printed, with
something like awe, In our newspa
pers, that we were growing at such a
rate commercially and In population
that we were actually becoming a
world power. It was a new thing, a
new thought. It was not unlike hear
ing that Johnny had got his first long
pants when we had hardly 'thought of
Johnny as anything but a small boy.
The United States did not seek to
be a world power; It simply grew to
be one, as Johnny grows from boyhood
to manhood. There was no Intention,
but it was Inevitable. A nation with
so many people and such Industrious
people, shipping goods to all parts of
the world, became a world power by
the mere process of growth. We did
not seek the status; It came to us.
Desired Only Peace.
When we discovered that we were a
world power In spite of ourselves we
tried to decide how we would behave
In this new state of being. Wo might
build oursclf a great army, swagger
around nnd Issue ultimatums, combine
with other world powers nnd bully the
world, If we chose. No American can
ever be made to believe we did this,
becauso we did not. We chose to be
a kindly giant, a benevolent world
power. We wanted nothing but peace,
here .or elsewhere. We hud grown to
manhood and the world knew we were
strong, but we wanted nothing but to
be permitted to stay on the old farm,
doing nn honest day's work each day,
attending to our own affairs In our
own way. From the world we asked
only that we be permitted a fair mar
ket In common with other nations,
nnd a safe road to market
' In contrast with the manner In
which the United States grew to world
power I put Prussia. I say I'mssia
Instead of Germany, because "Ger
many" outsMe of I'russla would never
have thought of becoming a world
power. "Germany," which was Bu'
varia and the many small states that
I'russla hounded Into tho German em
pire, had no dreams of world power-
fulness. Frussia had, Austria had
but the other Germanic states were
quite satisfied to exist.
Instead of Prussia I ought, perhaps,
to say Ilohenzollern, and by that I
mean the Ilohenzollern family that
practically owned I'russla, as you own
a flock of sheep or a farm or a pock'
etknife. The Ilohenzollern family had
a mania, and that mania was power
for Prussia. Prussia must be the
roost powerful German state; more
powerful than Bavaria, than Baden,
more powerful than Austria. This
was the fixed Idea in the back of
every Ilohenzollern head. It orlg-
innted, no doubt, with Frederick the
Great, who left when he died the dic
tum, "Every Hohenzollern king of
Prussia should add at. least one bit
cf territory to Prussia."
The Hohenzollern Dynasty. -
It i only fair to the first emperor
of Germany (William I) that If left
alone he would have been satisfied
with the addition of Schleswlg-Hol-
etcln, which he grabbed from Den
mark, lie was then only king of Prus;
da and he had done his share. lie
bad added his bit. There was, how
ever, Bismarck.
Bismarck, even before he came into
power in Prussia, had planned Prus
sia's future. First, Prussia must be
(he supreme power in Germania, then
Germany must be the supreme power
lo the world. That was bis life work ;
Jt was what Prussia pledged him she
roahi do. And to Bismarck Prussia
meant the Ilohenzollern dynasty.
Wtta malice aforethought, with Ilea
j1 trickery assisting his wonderful
ctatecraft. wJth a war against Austria
and a war ass lnst Franca as part of
Us plan for niit&lng Hoheiuullernlsm
M world power. Blauarck labored and ,
WORLD
POWER
won. lie piled Bavaria and the less.
German states together, placed Prus
sin on top of them, and held the
Ilohenzollerns on the top of the whole
pile. By show of armed strength (In
which the war ngalnst Austria and the
war against Franco were plunned at
exhibitions) he forced Ilohcnzollerr
Into world powcrfulness. Long be
fore he died He plnnned another wat
against France as another exhibition
of German strength. A reason for the
new war? lie had the same reason
that a slave driver has when he drags
an Innocent black before the assem
bled slaves and beats her until she
faints. Hqhcnzollernlsm must, every
so often, show its power. The world
must be kept cowed.
The Difference.
So you see how two notions have
reached world power the United
States and the Imperial Ilohenzollern
Germany. We grew; Imperial Ger
many planned and schemed and forged
bayonets. We are a world power be
cause we are great in size and
strength ; Germany was a world powei
because ehe was a thcatener of mur
der. She was a world power because
Lshe carried at all times a bludgeoa
Imperial - Prussian nohenzollern-Ger
many was a structure of bayonets; It
existed, as Bismarck would brutally
admit were he alive today, for the
honor and glory of the Ilohenzollerns,
nnd for no other reason. It was to
prove that Wllhelm Ilohenzollern,
king of Prussia, was a world power
that Germany was driven into the war
we are now fighting, and not to prove
that Germany was a world power.
Germany has paid a dear price for
nohenzollernlsm of the Wllhelm n
variety. The world has paid a fright
ful price.
Germany without the Hohenzollern
would be a great nation and a true
world power. As It is, she Is a bleed
ing, wounded, hungered tool. She is
being used by a Hohenzollern to prove
that a Hohenzollern king of Prussia
can do what he pleoses with Prussian
slaves and the slaves of Prussia. This
Is a nohenzollern war. It was planned
by Ilohenzollerns to keep the nohen
zollerns of Prussia firmly seated on
the throne, and for no other reason.
Well, Where Does It?
W. It. Seeker, manager of the L!n
coin hotel, says often he Is regarded
as a regular burenu of Information,
and like most hotel men Is supposed
to be a walking encyclopedia.
Seeker's son William often wlRhes
to know the "whys" nnd "wherefores"
of some almost unanswerable mat
ters. "While putting Blllle to bed the
other night and on leaving the room, I
switched out the light," he said. "Bll
lle called me back saying: 'Daddy,
turn on the lights again.' I obliged;'
then he asked me to turn out the
light
"Then like a bolt out of a clear sky
Blllle queried: 'Daddy, where does
the light go when you turn It out?'"
According to Seeker, the best he
could do In the emergency was to say
that Blllle's mother would explain it
all In the morning. Indianapolis
News.
Eugenics and English Science.
Eugenics may be described as the
study of agencies that may improve
or Impair the racial qualities of fu
ture generations, either physically or
mentally, the declared aim being the
betterment of the human race. The
science was founded by Sir Francis
Galton (1822-1911), a famous Eugllsh
statistician, anthropologist, nnd trav
eler. He distinguished himself by bis
remarkable work In anthropometry or
measurements of the human body. For
some years he conducted a system of
anthropomctrical records at South
Kensington Museum, London, compiled
from measurements taken from visi
tors to the museum. He founded the
study of eugenics at University col
lege, London.
Has Floats Like Footballs.
One of the newest types of life pre
servers consists of a belt to which
ore attached two or three inflatable
units shaped like footballs. Each has
a casing of properly reinforced duck,
and is lined with a rubber bladder
having a valve at one end for Inflating
It. The preserver weighs only about
one nnd one-fourth pounds and when
deflnted can be carried In the pocket.
Equipped with two bngs, it has suffi
cient buoyancy for use in swimming,
while the three-bag life preserver will
sustain a person weighing 2G0 pounds
in the water. -Popular llechnnles
Magazine.
Dialect In British teles.
Severnl In
fleets are spoken In the British isles.
in Northern Scotland most of the
people speak Gaelic, as they once
did In Ireland, where the' Gaelic
language has been undercolor; n
revival in recent years. The Welsh
nave a distinct language of their own
which Is of Celtic origin. The Cor
nish people' until for into the eight
eenth century spoke a Celtic language
very similar to that spoken by the
people of Brittany in France. Neurit
every shire of England has its peculiar
aiaiect.
Pretty Tall.
A private in an Irish regiment and
a life guardsman were "blowing" about
the standard of height in their re
spective regiments.
"Why," said the life guardsman,
"one of our fellows la ao tall that ha
can light bis pipe at a lamp post."
"Be Jnbers," retorted Pat "Flanni
ran of D company, Is so tail that the
beggar has to get down on bis knees
when lie wants to put his hands In hit
trouserg pockets." Tlt-Blts. .
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of the American soldiers who fell In the victorious fight In the St Mlhlel salient 8 General view of Bruges,
recaptured from the Huns nnd established as the capital of Belgium.
NEWS REVIEW OF
THE GREAT WAR
President Wilson Tells Germany
That No Peace Will Be Made
With the Kaiser.
VIEWS OF HIS REPLY YARY
Breaking Up of the Auttro-Hungarlan
Empire 8eeme an Assured Fact
Huns Continue Retreat From
Belgium Yank In Fierce
Fighting Northwest of
Verdun.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
We are willing to evacuate occu
pied territories and arrange an
armistice based on the actual
standard of power on both sides In
the field. Our land and sea forces
have not been been guilty of Ille
gal and Inhumane actions, and we
have ordered them not to commit
any more such actions. The Ger
man government Is now free from
any arbitrary and Irresponsible In
fluence and Is supported by the ap
proval of an overwhelming major
ity of the German people. Ger
many's Note to President Wilson.
Considering the assurances
given by the German government,
I cannot decline to suggest to the
allied governments the considera
tion of nn armistice,, which, how
ever, must leave the United States
and Its allies In a position to en
force the arrangements made and
to make Impossible a renewal of
' hostilities by Germany. It appears
to me that the kaiser and his crew
still are In unimpaired control of
the empire, and If we must deal
with them, now or later, we must
demand, not peace negotiations,
but surrender. President Wil
son's reply to Germany.
The above summarizes briefly but
fulrly the diplomatic exchanges of the
week between Berlin and Washington.
Germnny's note, evnslve, shuffling and
altogether unsatisfactory, was received
with contempt by the press nnd people
of the United States and the allied
countries. The president and his close
advisers, It was said, were pleased
only with the Indication that Berlin
was moving step by step toward full
acceptance of the allies' terms for nn
armistice and peace. The imperial gov
ernment's lndtgnnnt denial thnt Its
land and sea forces have 'committed
outrages was looked on generally as
an Insult to the Intelligence of a world
that knows such outrages have been
committed and have not yet ceased.
Even while protesting against the
charges,, the note 'says orders have
been Issued to discontinue the inhu
mane practices alleged by President
Wilson in his former note; and the
Huns who are being driven from Bel
glum nud northern France have not
stopped the ruthless pillaging and
burning of the places they are forced
to evacuate, save in a few Instances.
If the orders to observe tho 'rules of
civilized warfare hove been issued,
then there la an end of the contention
of the defenders of the German people
as distinguished from the German au
tocratic government, namely, that the
troops commit outrages only under the
orders of the military command. No
observing person can longer doubt that
we are at war not only with the Ger
man government, but with an inconsid
erable part of the German people. It
may be tint the Germans will over
throw the Ilohenzollerns and all their
gang, but if so, It will be not because
of the montlrous crime they have com
mitted, but because they have failed
of their (vimtnal purpose. There is
not In all Germany one sign of repent
ance. Ttuire Is only furious disap
pointment because the leaders have
not been able to "make good."
It cannot ha told truthfully that
President Wilson's reply to Berlin
aroused any wild enthusiasm. Most of
us felt as did Senator Ashurst of Ari
zona, who said: "I would have told
Germany to go to hell," Less blunt
critics of the president felt that the
pair rrply called for was a demand for
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unconditional surrender and that Mr..
Wilson was losing ground by continu
ing the diplomatic discussion with a
government with which, he very prop
erly declares, the United States cannot
negotiate. There was general appro
val of the latter part of the note, which
pronounced against any peace with the
kaiser, and the rest of It tvas praised
by those who saw In It a clever move
to alienate the German people from
their military leaders. There was no
doubt anywhere of the Tightness of the
president's alms and Intentions, but
mnny public men feared that his very
admirable detestation of war and his
fondness for writing notes might lend
him into an embarussing diplomatic
maze.
In reassurance, it may be said that
no armistice and no peace will be ar
ranged that are not entirely to the sat
isfaction of Great Britain, France and
Italy, as well as the United States,
and thnt these four allies hnve agreed
thnt Germany must be required to sur
render. There will be no cessation of
hostilities on the part of the allies un
til Germany not only evacuates occu
pied territory, but also gives substan
tial guarantees that will prevent re
sumption of fighting by her; and the
entente allies are determined that any
discussions concerning nn 'armistice
shall take Into full consideration the
sen power, in which they are predomi
nant (at
In his delayed reply to the note from
Austria-Hungary President Wilson In
formed Vienna that events had made
some of his famous fourteen points
out -of date, notably that concerning
the autonomy of the oppressed peoples
In the dual kingdom, since the United
States had recognized the Independ
ence of the Czecho-Slovaks and the na
tional aspirations of the Jugo-Slavs.
Consequently he could not talk peace
with those points as a basis. Then
followed an Imperial manifesto an
nouncing, the formation of federal
states In Austria-Hungary; the setting
up of a state of their own by the Ger
mans In Austria; the creation of a
sovereign state by the Slovenes, Cront-
luns and Serbs without reference to
present political frontiers, and prog
ress by the Hungarians toward full In
dependence, with reports that they
were about to npply to the entente
governments for terms for a separate
armistice and peace, v The empire of
Charles was fast breaking up, and
there was the greatest . depression In
Vienna, where famine .threatens and
the authorities are powerless Conse
quently, according to dispatches, the
Austrian government . is becoming
reconciled to the Idea of unconditional
capitulation.
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Again, and yet again, the unduly op
timistic must be reminded that, from a
military point of view, Germany Is
still far from being defeated. Though
she Is being forced to relinquish her
grip on Belgium and northern France,
she Is conducting hor retreat in order
and much In her own way, and though
losing -much material' and thousands
of men,' Is carrying off most of her
heavy guns and a great deal of her
supplies, destroying the bulk of those
Jeft behind. She still has about ICO
divisions on the west front, SO of them
being In reserve, and with these, with
the men returned from hospitals and
with those coming of military age she
probubly can hold out for many months
on her shortened front The Huns are
falling back to successive Hues of de
fense, pivoting on the positions north
of the Argonne and on the Meuse
heights, and with many thousands of
machine guns in strong positions are
making the advance of th'e allies as
difficult and expensive as possible. The
present government of Germany seem
ingly doesn't Intend to give up the
fight without making a desperate fin
ish, and toward the end of the week it
was said Ludendorff had drafted a
proclamation to the people exhorting
them to carry on the war to the utmost
since the allies would not grant them
peace without humiliation.
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All week ' long the Germans con
tinned their withdrawal from Belgium,
sometimes moving rapidly, and at oth
ers putting up a stouter resistance in
order to rescue some stores or guns.
In being driven from the Belgian const
some 15,000 Huns were forced across
the Holland border and were prompt
ly Interned by the Dutch. Halg's Brit
ish forces, ably seconded by the Bel
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gians, the French and some American
divisions, drove forwnrd relentlessly
nnd before the week closed were chas
ing the Inst of the Huns out of Valen
ciennes. To the south of that city, In
the direction of Maubeuge and Mons,
the British made a smashing attack,
breaking through-the enemy line of de
fense on a wide front nnd threatening
to outflank the line of the Scheldt
which, further north, had held up the
progress of the allies to some extent.
By cutting the banks of the Scheldt
canal and other watenvays the Ger
mans flooded the country. The cap
ture of Mons nnd Maubeuge would be
serious to the Germans, for those cities,
which are united by a railroad, have
been the principal German concentra
tion and supply points on the Ardennes
front. East of Le Cnteau, where the
Americans ore lighting beside the Brit
ish, the allied psogrcss was rather
slow.'
The fall of Ghent In the nenr future
seeming a certainty, the Germans were
evacuating it; nnd the Belgian govern
ment decided to establish itself in the
recovered city of Bruges.
The French In the Laon region
moved forwnrd somewhat, but the ad
vance there was slowed up consider
ably during the week. In the Cham
pagne the Huns were keeping up the
most determined kind of resistance,
nnd the Americans In the valley of the
Meuse were bearing the brunt of the
severe fighting. It was the hardest
kind of work, and at times the Yanks
had to fall back, but always they re
turned to the combat and carried their
objectives. Powerfully organized ma
chine gun positions were encountered
everywhere In that region of ravines
nnd hills and forests, and to take these
without too much loss it was neces
sary to maneuver past them and at
tack from the flanks and rear. Farther
west, to tho north of Grand Pre, the
Americans were engaged in equally
severe fighting, but yiere, too, they
were slowly overcoming the stubborn
resistance of the Huns. In this they
were materially aided by the big bomb
ing squadrons of the air forces which
not only continually harassed the en
emy In the fighting lines but made re
peated raids on his bases and supply
trains.
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One-fourth of Germany's available
military strength hns been placed In
the Champagne nnd Metise sectors to
hold back the Americans nnd French
there, nnd the task these allied armies
are doing, while not shpwy, Is of tre
mendous Importance nnd difficulty.
The Huns are trying desperately to
save the Mezleres-Luxemburg railway
system, on which depend all their
communications In that region. It Is
a satisfaction to know that the Amer
icans are giving a mighty' good ac
count of themselves there and that,
while their own losses are not small,
those of the enemy are vastly larger.
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In the near East matters progressed
favorably, the allies driving the Aus
trlans northward and reaching the
Danube on the Roumanian border,
thus completing the Isolation of Tur
key from the central powers. A fur
ther advance to Orsovn will open the
way for an Invasion of Austria. In
Montenegro the process of clearing
out the foe wont forward rapidly. At
Krushevntz, in the center of Serbia,
German forces were strongly resist
ing the ndvent of the Serbs townrd
Belgrnde. ' "
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Turkey, which Is more than ready
to make peace, hns a new scheme.
Plans nre being discussed to make
Constantinople a free port and dis
mantle the fortifications of the Dar
danelles on condition that the allies
guarantee the continuance of Constan
tinople as the capital of Turkey. It
Is also proposed to grant autonomy to
Arabia, Syria, Armenia and the Jew
ish part of Palestine.
The Germans seem to delight in vio
lating the sense of decency of civilized
people. The latest example of this
propensity Is the naming of Baron von
der Lancken as head of a commission
of neutral residents of Brussels which
Is to Investigate charges, of unneces
sary devastation during , the -retreat
from Belgium, This baron played 'a
leading rolo In the murder of Edith
Cavell, Ignoring the representations of
Brand Whltlock ana1 refusing to save
the nurge from death.
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Hhm reason
Use Coal Long Mined.
Anthracite mined 75 years ago by Arlc
Pardee, pioneer operator of the Lehlgha
field, IS being rushed down hastily
driven pits at the No. 3 colliery of the
Lehigh Valley Coal company, .Hazel
ton, Pa., and will be prepared andi
shipped to market
The fuol was dug out when all size
below egg were discarded ns useless..
The Pardee lenses lapsed nnd Uie Vnl
ley engineers' discovered this summer
that the culm banks 'contained cook
that ran 85 to 00 per cent carbon and!
was ready for running through the
breaker. Breasts were driven from the mines
to the outcrops under the piles andi
hundreds of thousands of tons of coal
are -available. Because of the labor
famine in the hard coal fields the find)
Is of special value at this time.
HAJHFALL OUT
A small bottle of "Danderine'
keeps hair thick, strong,
beautiful.
Girls! Try this! Doubles beauty
- of your hair in a few
moments.
Within ten minutes after an appli
cation of Dnnderlne you can not find a
single trace of dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after a few
weeks' use, when you see new hair, flne
and downy nt first yes-Mjut really
new hali? growing, all over the scalp..
A little Danderlne Immediately dou
bles the beauty of your hair. No dif
ference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, Just moisten a cloth with Dan
derlne and carefully draw it through
your hair, taking one small strand nt a.
time. The effect Is amazing your hair
will be light, fluffy and wavy, and have
an appearance of abundance; an In
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riance; Get a small bottle of Knowlton'S'
Danderlne for a few cents at any drug;
store or toilet counter, and prove that
your hair is as pretty and soft ns any
that it has been neglected or injured'
by careless treatment that's all yon
surely can have beautiful hair nnd lot
of It if you will Just try a little Dan
derlne. Adv.
Honesty or Feai Which?
A fleeing thief threw away $7,500 on
Broadway, New York, the other day
nnd the finder returned e-ery cent of
the money to the bank which had
been robbed. Did the finder act through,
honesty or through fear that he
couldn'f make use of so large a sum.
without being caught? Some years
ago a bank messenger lost, or claimed
he lost, a $10,000 bill on the street lr
the financial district It was never dis
covered. Some have speculated as to
what the finder or thief did with such
an unwleldly piece of money.
Wo Worm la Healthy Chrtd
all ehlldroo troubled wlii wormi faar an a
bMlthT eulor, vhiehlndlcttM boor blood, and M a
rule, there in n. ore or )ebe stomach diaturbaDO.
UUOVU'8 TASTULUSt) cblUXONiOfWeD rWulirir
(or two or three neeka will eunoh the blood, liu-pro-ra
the dleaetlon, and aol aa a Ui-neral HtreDf ih
eulncTonleto the whole aritaia. h.tuit wlLI Uieat
throw ol or dLpet the wornie, and the Child will be
ill Sarfoot health, rieaaaat to taaa. (x per eoule.
Do Him Justice.
Nero wasn't much as an example of
domesticity, but hiTkept tlve Rome fives'
burning.' ;
A pure blue Is shown by experiment
to be the natural color of water. -
, U'fcea Your Eves Meed Czro j
Try Murine Eve Remedy .,
Mo Bioartlnf Juet are Comfort. 0 eeute aV
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